The French Humorists from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century

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Roberts brothers, 1874 - 455 pagine
 

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Pagina 278 - And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Pagina 446 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Pagina 423 - With a wild mistress, a staunch friend or two, And a light heart still breaking into song : Making a mock of life, and all its cares, Rich in the glory of my rising sun, Lightly I vaulted up four pair of stairs, In the brave days when I was twenty-one.
Pagina 329 - Et je suis, quelque ardeur qu'elle m'ait pu donner, Le premier à les voir, comme à les condamner. Mais, avec tout cela, quoi que je puisse faire, Je confesse mon faible, elle a l'art de me plaire; J'ai beau voir ses défauts, et j'ai beau l'en blâmer, En dépit qu'on en ait, elle se fait aimer...
Pagina 113 - Because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour.
Pagina 353 - Et, comme je ne vois nul genre de héros Qui soient plus à priser que les parfaits dévots, Aucune chose...
Pagina 114 - And then the Chaldee and Arabic likewise. And that thou frame thy style in Greek, in imitation of Plato ; and for the Latin, after Cicero. Let there be no history which thou shalt not have ready in thy memory ; and to help thee therein, the books of cosmography will be very conducible.
Pagina 330 - J'ai beau voir ses défauts, et j'ai beau l'en blâmer, En dépit qu'on en ait, elle se fait aimer; Sa grâce est la plus forte, et sans doute ma flamme De ces vices du temps pourra purger son âme.
Pagina 25 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Pagina 115 - And at some of the hours of the day apply thy mind to the study of the Holy Scriptures ; first in Greek, the New Testament, with the Epistles of the Apostles ; and then the Old Testament, in Hebrew. In brief let me see thee an abyss and bottomless pit of knowledge...

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